Reviews tagging 'Murder'

Who Cooked the Last Supper?: The Women's History of the World by Rosalind Miles

3 reviews

daylajane's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny informative sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Violence, Genocide, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Adult/minor relationship, Pedophilia, Child abuse, Child death, Misogyny, Religious bigotry, Murder, Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Slavery, Forced institutionalization, Medical trauma, Gaslighting, and Infertility

clairet386's review against another edition

Was kind of disjointed, wasn’t sure of the central argument, and I didn’t feel like I was learning the things about women in history that I wanted to

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder, Rape, Sexual violence, Torture, and Sexism

aboone's review against another edition

challenging dark informative slow-paced

3.75

Informative, critical, work on an important topic. As much as I admire the book, it was a difficult read because of the intense violence, oppression, and dismal treatment of women it reports on. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Chronic illness, Incest, Murder, Pregnancy, Racism, Sexual content, Slavery, Sexual violence, Torture, Abortion, Colonisation, Dysphoria, Forced institutionalization, Genocide, Miscarriage, Sexual harassment, Terminal illness, Xenophobia, Violence, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Racial slurs, Infidelity, Medical trauma, Excrement, Gore, Homophobia, Infertility, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Medical content, Mental illness, War, Classism, Cursing, Physical abuse, Sexism, and Sexual assault